Saint Aidan's ( South Canterbury ) Kakahu Bush, South Island, New Zealand
By Bitsprayer on 08-Dec-07. Waypoint GC17X78

A bit exposed signed and covered with a few leaves. Tftc

Thank you, it was exciting to find!

Pointscouts

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A pleasant drive to this cache. Not having read the description, I was wondering whether church services would be on a Sunday, but not here! The rocks visible from gz are awesome! Nice quick find, TFTC!!South Australia is the place be for GCA1DNA - MEGA - February 29th, 2024 in Adelaide! Hope to see you at The Great Leap Forward!

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Found 13 feb 2021 catch up day

Found on a nice drive in the area. Enjoying the caches

Quick easy find.TFTC.

Cache was a quick find and I then had a good wander looking at the graves.

A very special place with an amazing backdrop. Lytteltonwitch and I spent a while looking at all the graves and their stories, have managed to source a book of the churches in the area, so will be reading all about the history of this wee church. Pity it has been re used in another way.

A proper cache that showed us an interesting place - thanks Bitsprayer! The container is broken at one side, but no problem since it is in a dry hiding spot.

Drive this way a fair bit to fairlie. Nice cache and reason to stop and have a look. TFTC

Here 9 years ago when Karma Reprint found it. Happy to add my name today. Tftc

Found with StreetWalkerNZ en route to Fairlie from Christchurch on a lovely late winters day. We had the time, and the weather was good, so we decided to walk the Kakahu track to the Pinnacles and after the walk, carried on Hall Rd to this cache.
A quiet wee spot, nice view of the escarpment from here. I was pretty weary after our walk, so SW did the honours. TFTC.

#18478. The nicely tucked away cache was quickly found. The container needs replacement (there is a a whole in the side that is several centimetres across) but the log is still in good shape. TFTC.

TFTC. NIce and easy

Back on the road after our walk and a nice easy find at this lonely cemetery. tftc

Another nice place.

Thanks for the find #teamawesome

A quick easy find on a beautiful sunny day. Lovely bluebells, and some white ones flowering. Had a walk around and read the headstones. Thanks for bring me here.

Found this one after doing the Kakahu Bush walk. What lovely spot with a view of the Escarpment too. Quick find, then a look around the few graves that are there. TFTC.

Nice easy find with JsyBean. Tftc

In Geraldine ca(t)ching up with BCD. Nice quick find while out for a Sunday drive. Watch for the prickle! TFTC

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Nice easy find in a truly hidden gem perfect spot for a cache tftc

Gevonden

Cycling towards Fairlie we passed this beautiful place, and naturally we had to log the cache . Tftc!

Didn't realise I had to go into the paddock with the wooly parishioners. Sweet spot. I love church caches but just had to imagine this one. Tftc

TFTC with heyhaynz.

TFTC found with JHay0112 great old spot

TFTC

Taine's first find, super stoked!

Quick find with all three sons, longer logs to come

Mouldy

Number15

Decided on a day away from the house today and headed inland for some geocaching.
This was number 1 for the day.
TFTC

parislaura, Team Jacob and I flew to New Zealand for the 2015 Mega.
Never having been out of Australia before, this was a very exciting trip for me
What a wonderful thing is a Mega! Seeing fellow geocachers with their flags on driving around town, tooting at those who are at caches and meeting many new people

Today was our drive to Waimate day, for a brief overnight stop prior to heading to Dunedin, then Queenstown.
Along the way, we saw some beautiful scenery and I patted some ponies and calves, which made my day
I found a total of 10 caches today

What a stunning little cemetery and with the added bonus of the amazing rock feature nearby [^]
We wandered for some time, enjoying the ambience and the views [^]

TNLN. SL. TFTC Bitsprayer

After enjoying the mega event in Christchurch, Locus Cache, Team Jacob and myself made a lovely journey along the coast all the way to Queenstown. We stopped in Waimate for the night and really loved the feel of such a country town.

Having a bit of a random drive around S Canty (after seeing the C.O. at Kiwi Nomad's Ashburton event); my aim was to get to Picnic near Hanging Rock - this was nearly on the way! .
Thanks for bringing me here, Bitsprayer - the nearby "cliff" is remarkable.

What a lovely place, cheers for getting me up here.

Easy find another brilliant location TFTC

Easy find as had been there before I became a geocacher TFTC

Driving back from the orienteering, we stopped for this one. A large number of sheep were wandering about the paddock. Interesting site. TFTC

There were orienteering competition arranged nearby and I ran here before my start. I had to think a few moments that is the cache really there, but after that I found it quickly. TFTC!

Found at 8:51:00 a.m. on 15/11/2014.

These caches were found during a trip to South Canterbury to attend the South Island Orienteering Championships.

TFTC Bitsprayer

#4344 @0940
In Geraldine/Timaru for the South Island Orienteering champs this weekend. Easily found this cache on my way to the first event. TFTC.

Quick find after orienteering event. Tftc sheep having a busy day as four other cache hunters been here today!

Third sunny day of the long weekend, great to catch some caches. TFTC.

Good as

Watch out for the thistles

The sheep did not mind us searching for the cache - a quick find on an interesting place. TFTC

How things change. Part two of the trail. A sad little place and very wet. Cache was OK though. Thanks.

It is a shame this Church has gone,but the Cache hadn't.Quickly found while Caching in the area.TFTH

Day 2: Quick grab and go on the way from Temuka to Geraldine
TFTC

Frequently driven passed this place, never really noticed it.
Grass trimmed by some peacefully grazing sheep. TFTC.

No Flowers today. Only dandelions and clover and VERY long grass.

What a shame it is so overgrown. But at least the Churchyard is getting some visits from cachers. TFTC.

Very interesting spot. Easily missed. Tftc

Such a small overgrown cemetery tftc

A lovely day and quickly found as I head off to work. Thanks for this one.

They must have taken out the sheep to let the daffodils bloom. They're finished now and grass getting long. A very pleasant stop. We parked around the corner so we wouldn't have to u turn and were entertained by a pair of fantail on the way back. Magic. NINO TFTC

Left the vehicles at the last cache and wandered along the quiet country lane to this historic site. Cache found very quickly. Wandered through the small cemetery and admired the various limestone rock formations in the valley.

Nice quick one TFTC

The sheep keep the graveyard tidy. Cache in view - should it have a rock in front of it?

Easy find TFTC

Another old churchyard. I just wonder how many of these there are in New Zealand.

TFTC! quality spot. Spent some Time looking around.

Really cool rock formations. TFTC

Drove past this without realising it was there. Such a small cemetery.
Easiest cache of the evening, once on site. Wonder what happened to the church? TFTC, TNLN

Easy find. Nice limestone cliffs.

Nice spot

TFTC

#5683

One of the many Saints, I wonder how many there are?

TNLN TFTC

Lived close by for a number of years, first time visit, worth effort

Another one we drove right past and needed to turn around and go back before espying the churchyard. Once there though, it was very easy to locate the cache. Cache was in good order. A very tranquil place

what a restful spot it is indeed - great place for a picnic - bring some extra food for the residents mine ha ha

TFTC. A lovely site and a well placed cemetery cache. Sorry to see that the church is now gone.

just got it signed before the neighbour came over to feed thr chooks. Thanks for all your caches.

Have driven by here a few times in the past. Thanks for making us stop & admire the surrounds. Shame nothing much is left of the church!.....cheers...

A nice spot for a cache, some amazing rock formations around. TFTC

I guess I won't be attending service here. Wonder if the church was moved or destroyed? Interesting spot and cache was found fast. TFTC

Out on the back roads of Canterbury today with Les_Chercheurs enjoy the great views and having loads of fun caching .
TFTH Happy Cachin!!!

Took a trip from Canada to New Zealand to visit my brother and nephew over Christmas. Did some caching and was taken to some pretty amazing places. Thanks for the cache!

Great day for a bike ride, made it a mission to find 2 caches on the way, great spot to stop and have a drink. TFTC, didn't know this spot was here in my backyard!

Very easy find. Great photo opportunity. Lots of happy children sounds.

A very bad music practise going on at the house next door while we were here!! Cache well exposed so hopefully we covered it successfully when we left. We wondered where the church that went with this graveyard had been??

No worries here. Cached this one at night but no frights.

Had to rescue the dino t/bug before he becomes historic again.

Neat wee church and a cache too cheers

TFTC

Very quick find thanks. Took the dog TB as I've had the dinosaur before. TFTC #

Found with YuGeo4, a quick driveby, thank for bringing me here. TFTC TNLNSL (1420)

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A quick and easy find with Yeetrees on our drive thru the countryside.

TNLNSL, TFTC

Found today while passing through the area. Also did the other cache nearby (GCJYXM). Loved this area of the countryside and were very happy to have been able to drive off the highway and do this little detour. It's just beautiful. We were sad to see that the Greyfriars Bobby TB is missing from the cache. I'm hoping that someone else has collected it and just not logged it yet. If on holiday they would have to wait until they could get to a computer. We have Left: A Spikey Enemy TB to entice others off the highway and into this beautiful area. Thanks for the detour and the beautiful location. Took: tiny backpack toy.

Quick find on our mornings travels. TFTC

Rain was starting to fall quite seriously by the time we reached this cache. Easy find thankfully

Daffodils and sheep occupying the paddock today.
Many thanks

Found with Madiecacher

We enjoyed this after having bad luck elsewhere.
Dropped in TB